Some people recognize the benefit of having the government involved in regulating certain markets. Usually because they have a world view that is bigger then themselves, and can appreciate how regulation often helps people, if not being directly helped themselves. Lack of regulation is the true way to invite corruption. Unless you want to be living in a society more like they have in the lesser governed nations of Africa.
I have to say, I'm really shocked about insensivity towards the disabled seen in this thread. This further entrenches my opinion that the people defending Uber care nothing for others, and do nothing to appreciate the situation that others find themselves in. We don't have much of a society if we turn our backs on the weakest among us.
You are not the center of the frigging universe, as difficult as that may be for some of you to comprehend.
I really don't get why weight matters in a laptop. If 5.47 pounds is too heavy for you in any situation, you really need to stop worrying about it and maybe start lifting some weights.
I use a technology called TELEPHONE for chatting with friends and family. While it doesn't support XMPP, it supports a technology called MOUTH quite well. Next week I will be trying a new technology called 'IN PERSON'. I hear IN PERSON supports MOUTH as well, as well as TOUCH (just like a smartphone screen!). I will report back on how it goes.
Doh! My dad and I used to spend hours copying machine code from the pages of Byte magazine, only to get a little blip in the middle of the screen instead of seeing the glory that was 'Ring Quest' ! Where were you to fix our code??
To me it seems to parallel what happened to the music industry in the 80's. There used to be a proliferation of real art, but then the industry figured out that all glitz with no substance made them more money and there you have it. Apple becomes the richest company and everyone else chases them down the spiral.
They try to treat all the addicts we have today and they can't. How does legal drugs translate into easily 10x number of addicts being able to find treatment? That is a very strange association you are making.
Suuuure. In fact I hope Foxconn sets up here so I can get me one of those quality jobs! I'll take Uber every day because that is all I will be able to afford.
You're saying people will give drugs for free if they are legalized? Because if not free, someone who is hopelessly addicted will resort to crime to get it. Legal drugs are more expensive then illegal.
No.. I want the government to decide that narcotics are bad for the druggie that may mug my family on the street one day. The druggie that may otherwise not have started using drugs if they were harder to get. There are a lot of them out there, don't try to pull the 'if they want to get it they will get it' crap. People are being prevented from starting it because the government tells us it is bad.
You expect Uber drivers to understand their total affect on the economy once there are 100x more than there are today? You think they will still have the same deal once the 'gig economy' gains traction? Uber is just the first company of many.
Once corporations have been allowed to erode almost every labor law put into place, watch people become hopelessly dependent on them on a meal by meal basis. We will be exactly like Chinese workers at Foxconn, who consider it to be a wonderful opportunity because the alternative is starvation.
YES! Let's create a category where a company is allowed to associate with a worker so temporary they have absolutely no obligation to them whatsoever. The Walmarts and McDonalds of the nation won't start to jump on that AT ALL. Nothing can go wrong!
This seems to optimize code, as opposed to fixing bugs. It won't detect for example a possibility of referencing nil. Also, I suspect it would need a very strongly typed language which would reduce the human intelligence requirement to zero. One other thing I am wondering is how maintainable the code is after. Does the code make sense or does it look more like it was written by a robot.
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Some people recognize the benefit of having the government involved in regulating certain markets. Usually because they have a world view that is bigger then themselves, and can appreciate how regulation often helps people, if not being directly helped themselves. Lack of regulation is the true way to invite corruption. Unless you want to be living in a society more like they have in the lesser governed nations of Africa.
If Taxi's were completely a luxury then they wouldn't have been regulated in the first place. They are a service that are part of a community.
Now I need TWO bags for my vibrator collection.
I have to say, I'm really shocked about insensivity towards the disabled seen in this thread. This further entrenches my opinion that the people defending Uber care nothing for others, and do nothing to appreciate the situation that others find themselves in. We don't have much of a society if we turn our backs on the weakest among us.
You are not the center of the frigging universe, as difficult as that may be for some of you to comprehend.
Even still, who are these people looking for ultrabooks that can't lift and carry 5.47 pounds??
It's not jello, it's Chiclets. They're crisp until the first use but then, well, they're Chiclets.
I really don't get why weight matters in a laptop. If 5.47 pounds is too heavy for you in any situation, you really need to stop worrying about it and maybe start lifting some weights.
I use a technology called TELEPHONE for chatting with friends and family. While it doesn't support XMPP, it supports a technology called MOUTH quite well. Next week I will be trying a new technology called 'IN PERSON'. I hear IN PERSON supports MOUTH as well, as well as TOUCH (just like a smartphone screen!). I will report back on how it goes.
Visual Basic is still uglier.
Doh! My dad and I used to spend hours copying machine code from the pages of Byte magazine, only to get a little blip in the middle of the screen instead of seeing the glory that was 'Ring Quest' ! Where were you to fix our code??
To me it seems to parallel what happened to the music industry in the 80's. There used to be a proliferation of real art, but then the industry figured out that all glitz with no substance made them more money and there you have it. Apple becomes the richest company and everyone else chases them down the spiral.
They try to treat all the addicts we have today and they can't. How does legal drugs translate into easily 10x number of addicts being able to find treatment? That is a very strange association you are making.
Suuuure. In fact I hope Foxconn sets up here so I can get me one of those quality jobs! I'll take Uber every day because that is all I will be able to afford.
If customers didn't want the model any more then they would abolish the law instead of supporting a company that is clearly breaking it.
You're saying people will give drugs for free if they are legalized? Because if not free, someone who is hopelessly addicted will resort to crime to get it. Legal drugs are more expensive then illegal.
because it is really hard to fit all those cars into consolidated sweat shops.
Yes it is bad. Do you work for $2 an hour?
Regulations keep you and I from getting screwed over. You realize that right?
I really think people like the OP don't understand how dangerous the world becomes without putting a reasonable cap on things.
No.. I want the government to decide that narcotics are bad for the druggie that may mug my family on the street one day. The druggie that may otherwise not have started using drugs if they were harder to get. There are a lot of them out there, don't try to pull the 'if they want to get it they will get it' crap. People are being prevented from starting it because the government tells us it is bad.
You expect Uber drivers to understand their total affect on the economy once there are 100x more than there are today? You think they will still have the same deal once the 'gig economy' gains traction? Uber is just the first company of many.
Once corporations have been allowed to erode almost every labor law put into place, watch people become hopelessly dependent on them on a meal by meal basis. We will be exactly like Chinese workers at Foxconn, who consider it to be a wonderful opportunity because the alternative is starvation.
YES! Let's create a category where a company is allowed to associate with a worker so temporary they have absolutely no obligation to them whatsoever. The Walmarts and McDonalds of the nation won't start to jump on that AT ALL. Nothing can go wrong!
"The employees like it, the customers like it" By that reasoning, it should be legal to sell narcotics on the street.
This seems to optimize code, as opposed to fixing bugs. It won't detect for example a possibility of referencing nil. Also, I suspect it would need a very strongly typed language which would reduce the human intelligence requirement to zero. One other thing I am wondering is how maintainable the code is after. Does the code make sense or does it look more like it was written by a robot.